it would be preposterous for anyone to claim to have originated this or any other narrative that is barely at any remove from common sense/intuition. the quip is a natural consequence of borrowing a bill from an audience member, and as such it's equally incapable of being a genuine innovation, much less an innovation singularly attributable to a particular person. by contrast, methods for vanishing/transposing the bills have clear demarcations, before and after having been invented.